{"id":1456,"date":"2013-05-31T17:00:20","date_gmt":"2013-05-31T17:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/blog\/?p=1456"},"modified":"2025-04-22T17:22:40","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T21:22:40","slug":"the-daily-star-a-managed-hosting-case-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/blog\/the-daily-star-a-managed-hosting-case-study\/","title":{"rendered":"The Daily Star: A Managed Hosting Case Study"},"content":{"rendered":"
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If you are looking for fast Fully Managed Dedicated Servers<\/a> and a great experience to go along with it, you’ll love our Dedicated Managed Hosting<\/a> at InMotion Hosting. We are proud to present The Daily Star<\/em> as a case study on how InMotion can deliver a highly optimized and reliable Dedicated Hosting solution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Daily Star<\/em> is the number one online newspaper in Bangladesh, and their web site <\/em>receives millions of hits per hour. Their previous hosting company was unable to provide a comprehensive Managed Hosting solution, so they decided to switch to InMotion Hosting.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The Custom Managed Hosting Solution<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

InMotion Hosting Managed Hosting specialists went through many steps to optimize The Daily Star<\/em>‘s<\/em> WordPress site. We employed several proven solutions to create a rock-solid hosting platform built on our Commercial Class Dedicated Servers. We set up two servers- a web server and a database server. Check out the following specifications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Varnish Caching<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Varnish Cache<\/a> (also known as caching HTTP reverse proxy<\/em>) is a web application accelerator designed to optimize HTTP requests. Varnish is installed on the front end of the server to cache the Website contents. The performance of Varnish Cache is exceptional. It typically speeds up delivery with a factor of 300 – 1000x, depending on your architecture bringing the server load<\/a> down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NginX Web Server<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Nginx<\/a>\u00a0is an\u00a0Open Source Web Server<\/em>\u00a0and a\u00a0Reverse Proxy Server<\/em>. HTTP, SMTP,\u00a0POP3<\/a> and IMAP protocols\u00a0are optimized to run high concurrent processes with\u00a0low memory usage<\/a>. Instead of using a process driven server model, Nginx uses an asynchronous event model to handle requests. This allows higher performance under\u00a0high server loads<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apache DSO and mod_ruid2<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Apache DSO<\/a> is Dynamic Shared Objects (DSO) is a PHP handler<\/a> that speeds up the server using opcode caches. The APache module mod_ruid2<\/a> is a suexec module<\/a> for Apache that causes forked Apache processes to be run as a particular user. This allows for PHP to be run in DSO mode without the typical security problems of running PHP as DSO in an environment shared by multiple users.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alternative PHP Cache (APC)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The PHP PECL module APC<\/a> is Alternative PHP Cache<\/em>. This allows the interpretation of PHP scripts to caches opcode. The cache can cache objects like database objects and full page views. Websites will speed up PHP with APC<\/a> and perform even faster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Commercial Class #1 for Databases<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

To optimized the databases for The Daily Star<\/em>, we set them up on Commercial class Dedicated hosting<\/a>. The database server uses a Commercial Class #1 server with the following specifications (Server specifications are subject to change).<\/p>\n\n\n\n